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  1. Re:What about rain? on Hagfish Slime Could Make Super-Strong Clothes · · Score: 2

    How about Natalie Portman, Dressed in hagfish fabric and petrified and dissolved with hot grits?

  2. Re:Ooh ooh ooh! Me Obongo! on A Twisted Clean-Tech Tale: How A123 Wound Up In Bankruptcy · · Score: 2

    Solyndra is in California, General Motors is headquartered in Detroit, but has 156 facilities on six continents, Chrysler Group LLC is headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, and has 23 plants in 3 countries; so you'll have to be more specific. The Auto companies at least paid the government back.

  3. Re:Of course, on As Fish Stocks Collapse, Overpopulated Lobsters Resort to Cannibalism · · Score: 1

    I assumed it was to pay for their passage to the new world, capital goods and supplies. At the end they were contractually obligated to provide 8 or 9 days of labor a week to their contract holders; it puts our current financial situation into a different perspective.

  4. Re:Farming/fishing subsidies on As Fish Stocks Collapse, Overpopulated Lobsters Resort to Cannibalism · · Score: 1

    Agricultural and fishing subsidies are bad for everyone and everything except the people whose livelihoods being subsidized.

    I know a lot of farmers, and they all want to know where these subsidies are as they sure as hell aren't getting them.

  5. Re:Where's PETA? Oh there they are. on As Fish Stocks Collapse, Overpopulated Lobsters Resort to Cannibalism · · Score: 2

    Considering the primitive brain those bugs have, I fail to see why anyone would be surprised at their cannibalism, the rule of thumb in the ocean is anything you can eat, you do eat. 90% of my goldfish and koi fry are lost to cannibalism and predation.

  6. Re:Of course, on As Fish Stocks Collapse, Overpopulated Lobsters Resort to Cannibalism · · Score: 3, Informative

    In one of Peter Lynch's books he noted that the pilgrims had a clause in their contracts that they could not be fed lobster more than 3 times a week.

  7. Re:Congress Sucks on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 1

    Article I, Section 6 of the US Constitution:
    "They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place."

    I would think that would cover suits filed over speech occurring in congress

  8. Re:sick and tired of labels on No More "Asperger's Syndrome" · · Score: 1

    The real question should be is when a potential human offspring becomes sentient rather than a cell culture.

  9. Re:I'm still trying to wrap my brain around... on FBI Dad's Misadventures With Spyware Exposed School Principal's Child Porn · · Score: 1

    My guess would be that one of two things happened;
    1. the spyware resided in sectors that were marked as bad so that antispyware programs would have difficulty finding it which was then loaded by a modified bootloader. When the drive was reimaged, the sectors containing the spyware was past the end of the image and the boot loader wasn't over written and still ran the spyware,
    2. the most likely the computer shop just deleted the user and deleted the user's space with out reimaging and then charged for the reimaging.

  10. Re:more gold in semiconductors on Research Discovery Could Revolutionize Semiconductor Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    Seriously that's not a problem, just send direct to a refiner/assay company like Garfield Refining , they'll take anything except mercury, precious scrap metal, grindings, floor sweepings, vacuum cleaner bags, Dental labs and jewelry repair shop even rip up their carpets and send them in and frequently get a check back big enough to pay for the new carpet.

  11. Re:Is gold is cheaper than silicon? on Research Discovery Could Revolutionize Semiconductor Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    There is no reason that I can think of for the gold substrate to have any thickness as we commonly think of other than being able to physically handle the material. Gold has been beaten into leaf for 5000 year and goldleaf is 0.0001016 mm thick, I'm sure even that is thick compared to what they can do with gaseous deposition where layers thin enough to see through are common. All they need is something solid enough to grow some silicon crystals on.

  12. Re:Was it justified on Apple Axes Head of Mapping Team · · Score: 1

    Which was later update to the Judas Goat

  13. Re:No comments, then a flood of experts on Large Hadron Collider May Have Produced New Matter · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think the coolest part is it surprised them, that doesn't happen to often to those guys.

  14. Venus, really, do you have any idea how much CO2 it would take to get to Venusian conditions? No you don't or you'd realize how stupid bringing up Venus is. To get to Venus you'd have to transmute every molecular in our atmosphere to CO2, then you'd have to multiply those molecule by 146!

  15. Re:Usual Suspects on Antarctic Marine Wildlife Is Under Threat From Ocean Acidification, Study Finds · · Score: 1

    "The study was a combined project involving researchers from the BAS, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the US Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of East Anglia's school of Environmental Sciences."
    You forgot half the usual suspects, wonder when Mann and Gore will chime in.

  16. Re:Natural Selection on Antarctic Marine Wildlife Is Under Threat From Ocean Acidification, Study Finds · · Score: 1

    Google doesn't show much about H2S cycles in lakes and the ocean above or below 100 ft I'm curious if this is something just discovered that has been occurring unnoticed or naturally occurring and previously noticed. Personally I've often found noticeable amount of H2S in my Koi pond sludge so I'm honestly skeptical that this really is something new or predominately anthropogenic.

  17. Careful with the Narcissistic label, I'd think that Mann, Jones, Gore and Connolley have displayed more than a few narcissistic behaviours over the years.

  18. Re:Beware - overview may be severely biased... on Antarctic Marine Wildlife Is Under Threat From Ocean Acidification, Study Finds · · Score: 1

    They took a decision that there was no case to be made for having always to 'balance' the reporting of mainstream science with opposing views, most of which are not represented in the scientific literature anyway. In the same way that a natural history programme should not have to balance each mention of evolution with a creationist argument.

    No they actually took the stance that they would no longer be impartial in these matters as per the advice of their secret panel of experts

    As expected, the BBC has won its legal battle against blogger Tony Newbery. Newbery wanted the list of “scientific experts” who attended a BBC seminar at which, according to the BBC Trust, they convinced the broadcaster to abandon impartiality and take a firmly warmist position when reporting climate change.
    When the Beeb refused to divulge who these people were and who they worked for, Newbery took the corporation to an information tribunal. Now the names and affiliations of the 28 people who decided the Beeb climate stance – acknowledged by the Corporation to include various non-scientists such as NGO people, activists etc – will remain a secret.The Secret 28 Who Made BBC ‘Green’ Will Not Be Named

    and while the Beeb won by arguing that they weren't subject to FOI requests in this matter, they failed by publishing the list of the secret conclave's participants on their website and then removing it; which meant that a search of the internet way-back machine revieled

    The list from: January 26th 2006, BBC Television Centre, London

    Specialists:
    Robert May, Oxford University and Imperial College London
    Mike Hulme, Director, Tyndall Centre, UEA
    Blake Lee-Harwood, Head of Campaigns, Greenpeace
    Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
    Michael Bravo, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
    Andrew Dlugolecki, Insurance industry consultant
    Trevor Evans, US Embassy
    Colin Challen MP, Chair, All Party Group on Climate Change
    Anuradha Vittachi, Director, Oneworld.net
    Andrew Simms, Policy Director, New Economics Foundation
    Claire Foster, Church of England
    Saleemul Huq, IIED
    Poshendra Satyal Pravat, Open University
    Li Moxuan, Climate campaigner, Greenpeace China
    Tadesse Dadi, Tearfund Ethiopia
    Iain Wright, CO2 Project Manager, BP International
    Ashok Sinha, Stop Climate Chaos
    Andy Atkins, Advocacy Director, Tearfund
    Matthew Farrow, CBI
    Rafael Hidalgo, TV/multimedia producer
    Cheryl Campbell, Executive Director, Television for the Environment
    Kevin McCullough, Director, Npower Renewables
    Richard D North, Institute of Economic Affairs
    Steve Widdicombe, Plymouth Marine Labs
    Joe Smith, The Open University
    Mark Galloway, Director, IBT
    Anita Neville, E3G
    Eleni Andreadis, Harvard University
    Jos Wheatley, Global Environment Assets Team, DFID
    Tessa Tennant, Chair, AsRia

    BBC attendees:
    Jana Bennett, Director of Television
    Sacha Baveystock, Executive Producer, Science
    Helen Boaden, Director of News
    Andrew Lane, Manager, Weather, TV News
    Anne Gilchrist, Executive Editor Indies & Events, CBBC
    Dominic Vallely, Executive Editor, Entertainment
    Eleanor Moran, Development Executive, Drama Commissioning
    Elizabeth McKay, Project Executive, Education
    Emma Swain, Commissioning Editor, Specialist Factual
    Fergal Keane, (Chair), Foreign Affairs Correspondent
    Fran Unsworth, Head of Newsgathering
    George Entwistle, Head of TV Current Affairs
    Glenwyn Benson, Controller, Factual TV
    John Lynch, Creative Director, Specialist Factual
    Jon Plowman, Head of Comedy
    Jon Williams, TV Editor Newsgathering
    Karen O’Connor, Editor, This World, Current Affairs
    Catriona McKenzie, Tightrope Pictures catriona@tightropepictures.com

    BBC Television Centre, London (cont

  19. Re:On the oil/steam separator... on HydroICE Project Developing a Solar-Powered Combustion Engine · · Score: 1

    There is one, oil/steam mixtures are ferociously combustable, and would easily allow one to burn diesel or even used engine oil in an spark ignitioned internal combustion engine; but even that seems a little like a Rube Goldgerg machine to me. There are people who are working on converting the Detroit Diesel Series 71 engines to steam operation, a two cycle diesel would seem fairly easy to convert.

  20. Re:If it's too cheap to ignore then make it clean! on The World Falls Back In Love With Coal · · Score: 1

    Still playing hide the pea

  21. Re:If it's too cheap to ignore then make it clean! on The World Falls Back In Love With Coal · · Score: 1

    The role of CO2 in global warming has been greatly over-stated. It really hasn't gotten warmner in the last 10 or 15 years and there are signs we'll even be cooling over the next 30 years, all while CO2 keeps increasing.

  22. Re:The gene position, of course, is on Research Suggests Apes and Humans Separated By a Single Gene · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Gorillas such as Koko, when taught sign language are scary smart, even without the gene.

  23. Re:windows? what were you thinking? on Ask Slashdot: Should Hosting Companies Have Change Freezes? · · Score: 1

    Back to TFA, I'm curious as to what's stopping the article submitter from sticking in a simple SCCM** box (or at least script something in Powershell that ties into Windows Update) and do his own %}$#@! patching? Relying on anyone other than the OEM to do patches is kinda, well, dumb.

    .
    ** I know, I know - SCCM blows goats. But it's not like it's completely impossible to set up, and besides - that's the price you pay for using so much Windows gear.

    Shared hosting? Not sure if windows can do that, but that would explain why patching might be terminated. I recall a few PHP upgrades that broke a lot of things on LAMP stacks.

  24. Re:Is there enough data on Report Says Climate Change Already Evident, Emissions Gap Growing · · Score: 1

    Actually the average global temperature has been stuck in the vicinity of 0.34C for little more than a decade, some papers have predicted that there will be a 30 year cooling trend beginning right around now.

  25. Re:Is there enough data on Report Says Climate Change Already Evident, Emissions Gap Growing · · Score: 1

    Oh come on, next you'll be saying that actual observed data trumps computer model output!